Câteva reprezentări ale „Puterii” dinspre istoria biblică a lui Iacob şi Essau spre nuvelistica lui Pavel Dan
A Few Representations of ”Power” from Jacob and Essau Biblic History towards Pavel Dan s Short Story Writing

Summary/Abstract: The study of the social imaginary presents a complex of problems, due to its multidisciplinary character, to the numerous similitudes and methodological tendencies that reunite or oppose to each other. Selecting from the complicated and interesting mechanism of power in the social imaginary, we mainly aim to present its representations and symbols. The representations of power express a state of the social group; they translate the actual state of the group, the manner of thinking of the representatives and their way to react to various events, an exterior danger or violence. We chose to discuss power because it is a necessity of all societies, inventorying and imagining a legitimacy to grant the power. Literature is a privileged field of imaginary and the texts may restore the best “delicacies” from other times, even if the literary text does not offer a complete experience, always presenting partial experiences. Our examples are the biblical story of Jacob and Esau and the prose of Pavel Dan. The parallel is based on the fact the writing of the Romanian author present in a representative manner the universe of the Transylvanian village, an area which, due to the climatic conditions may be compared partially with the desert space where Isaac and his sons lived. The short story Urcan the Old, belonging to Pavel Dan, is a point of interest for our study for its episode when Valer, the son of Ludovica and Simion, tries to illegally take the possession of his grandfather’s estate, banishing his father.

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